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How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all site hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...